If you all of a sudden had a Billion euros to spend on coins!

Looking at the article, I didn't even realize that the UK had changed back in the 1970s to the US system of one billion = 1,000 million. I thought they still used the one billion = one million million scale.

 

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That is why/ 1 B. is easy to spend within a year on sixbid site auctions. German states, would be the most expensive to have a complete collection. There are many tens of thousands of coins that would realize 1M+ euros.
John

 

id try getting all of these and the CAR 8 reales. i love sun on both coins

 

I have to agree with @Chris B - multiple talers. The bigger the better.

 

I'd first and foremost exchange 'em for good ol' American dollar$...not into anything of euros or bit-coins...nothing of world or foreign monetary systems, currency, et al. After that, I dunno...if to spend only on coins I'd then buy some good ol' American coins.

 

You would end up with 1B +US Dollars/ since EURO is worth 20% more

It would not take long to spend all your money on US coinage/ Brasher Doubloons/ Stellas/ Early Turban/ Liberty Head 2.50/ 5/10 Dollar gold in MS quality like Pogue coll.

 

Hey, there's a collecting goal -- a full set of gold Stellas. Not one of each type and year; all of each type and year.

You could do it with a billion, I think, as long as you waited long enough for all the current owners to die, and as long as nobody else caught on to what was happening.

 

Everyone will sell basically anything for the right price. The real issue would be the last one. You could easily bribe most of the set with enough money overpaying but if the last one figures it out they would hold all the cards

 

I would go for the Poland AV 100 Dukaten 1621/ Bohemia 1629 100/ 50/ 40 Dukaten issued under HRE Ferdinand II for promoting the future election of his son as Ferdinand III when he passed on to heaven. My fav. the Transylvania AV 100 Dukaten Michal Apafi 1683 to bribe HRE Leopold I not to send him to the "axeman" upon victory over Ottomans in 1683. Apafi had been on the Ottoman side. Oh, to be rich and afford ones dreams reality sucks.....

 

To be honest, even if I somehow managed to come into that kind of money, I seriously doubt that I would spend a large percentage of it on coins, my plan is to try to buy one quality gold coin from each country that is of historical interest to me, with a few exceptions, mostly ancient Rome and Greece, from where I would buy a few gold coins instead of just one (and in the case of ancient Greece, I am also interested in buying the Athenian silver tetradrachm from the 5th century BCE), and that wouldn't change if I suddenly became extremely rich, what would change is that I would buy them all much sooner and since I wouldn't have to think about money, I could buy the best version of each coin available with a complete peace of mind, while as to which coins I would buy, the list would probably look something like this:

Aureus of Marcus Aurelius

5th century BCE Athenian silver tetradrachm in really top condition

Gold stater of Eucratides I

Gold stater of Alexander the Great from the 4th century BCE

Achaemenid Empire daric gold coin

The 8th century Tang Dynasty gold coin you can see on my avatar

Annamese gold coin

Seljuk gold dinar of Alp Arslan

Ottoman sultani gold coin of Mehmed II

Carthaginian gold stater from the 4th century BCE

Duchy of Milan gold ducat of Filippo Maria Visconti

Gold Noble of Henry V

Mughal gold Mohur of Aurangzeb

German Empire gold Mark coin

When I think of more of them, I will edit this post and add them.

 

My favs are those awesome Transylvanian gold multiple Dukaten pieces with weird shapes/ and my all time fav.
Castile & Leon
AV 50 Enriques ND 175g. 89mm.
Segovia Mint
Enrique IV 1445-74

 

If I had 200000 USD in my coin budget, I would put in an offer for this gold stater of Eucratides I:

 

I would buy @johnmilton ’s coins

 

SUCH A DEAL I HAVE FOR YOU! A CERTIFIED GOLD COIN COLLECTION, LIKE NO OTHER WITH NUMEROUS SCARCE CACed COINS!!

 

Imagine having Putins $$$$ (2-3T)
Still NOT enough to have complete collection of German States gold coins
But it would get you every Roman Republic/ Empire/ Western & Eastern Empires/ Byantine gold aureus/ solidi/ hyperyper/ Nomisma/ semissis/ tremissis/ binio/ scruplum!

 

Thankfully I have no such ambition, the only coin I would want to own that would surely cost in the millions if it became available is the gold 20 stater of Eucratides I, the Tang Dynasty gold coin on my avatar might pass the million USD mark if it became available, but since genuine gold coins of the various Chinese dynasties are basically non-existent in the West, it is very hard to make an educated guess about its market value, probably around 5 coins in the hundreds of thousands of USD range, and all the other coins I want cost below 100000 USD, most of them way below that, so unless the winning bid on the first coin beat the world record by several times, I could buy all the coins I want for way under 100 million USD, and the majority of the sum I would spend in that scenario would be spent on a single coin.

 

Simple people can't understand the concept of collecting tangible rather than fiat/bitcoin/etc.?.
I don't care how much fiat? you would offer for some of my scarce/CACed coins that took decades to acquire, they're not for sale until I die, and lawyers will own the fiat?!

 

There is so vast a treasure trove of diverse coins out there to buy/ one could easily spend in the trillions. When you watch youtube BS about their top ten most $$$$ coins/ go figure nine are US coins/ most early silver dollars/ Brasher Doubloons. What about Mughal Emperor Jahangir AV 1000 / 500M or 200M from Shah Jahan I?. Transylvanian 100 Dukaten/ 105 Zecchini/ Venice/ Poland 1621 100 D/ Bohemia 100D? There are Roman AV 10 Aurei/ Bactria 20 Stater? The 1933 overhyped Double Eagle 17 exs sold 13.7M
I would rather have a MS Basel 1741 20 Dukaten any day. It only sold for 1.7M.

 

I for one am thankful that the Americans are for the most part focused on their own coins, I don't even want to imagine how much the prices of ancient, medieval, etc. coins would go up if the Americans focused their attention on them.

 

Could not agree more Seems in US coin auctions, they call 118K struck as "low mintage". Europeans don't even talk about numbers/ unless under 1000 were originally struck.